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Clever

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

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Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

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Courage

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

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Being Yourself

Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.

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Being Strong

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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Emile Zola

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

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Erica Jong

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Courage

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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F. Burton Howard

Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.

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Florence Nightingale

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

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